Alliteration

al-lit-ėr-ā′shun, n. the recurrence of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words following close to each other, as in Church ill's ' a pt a lliteration's a rtful a id:' the recurrence of the same initial sound in the first accented syllables of words: initial rhyme—the characteristic structure of versification of Old English and Teutonic languages generally. Every alliterative couplet had two accented syllables, containing the same initial consonants, one in each of the two sections.— v.i. Allit′erate , to begin with the same letter: to constitute alliteration.— adj. Allit′erative . [Fr.—L. ad , to, and liter a , a letter.]